[OT] The internet is 40 years old today!

[Duncan MacGregor]

On October 29, 2009 10:26:45 pm Mel Wilson wrote:

> Not so much in Honeywell's case.  Each customer had developed its own 
> network, and Honeywell would get one if its two or three 
> communications specialists to come in and create a unique Datanet-355 
> program to handle the protocols.  Your point remains, though.  No two 
> systems that weren't born in the same litter would even dream of 
> exchanging data remotely.

>Each customer had developed 
or inherited 
>its own network

You are right. Modifying a Datanet-355 using NPS was not uncommon. so as to recognize a *terminal* device. I remember briefly working  with a customer's NPS setup to use a teletype  as a remote terminal. Hopping across the floor at 75 baud?

The host-terminal notion was pretty strong, but we were a long way from the peer-to-peer network we assume today.  DPS6s, DPS7s, and DPS8s could not talk to each other readily, in the manner that we now take for granted.


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